Chapter 132 They Built Within

• The castle looked different now.Not in shape or stone—but in soul.Gone were the scorch marks, the half-broken halls, the grim silence of war.Instead, flowers bloomed along the terraces. Laughter echoed through open windows. Children’s footsteps thundered down corridors where once only blood and politics had reigned.
• And in the center of it all, Queen Espen stood in a patch of sunlight, barefoot and glowing.
• She didn’t wear a crown anymore.She didn’t need to.